When I turned 42 last November, I was happy. In reference to the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I declared that "since this year is the year of 42, I'll get the answer to my life changing questions."

I will make LJ cuts to spare your eyes ;^)

Friday night (the 17)

( Luke's here! Read more... )

We're throwing Canada out the window. Damnit.

From the CCLA - Canadian Civil Liberties Association:
"A breach of peace": A preliminary report of observations during the 2010 G20 Summit (will open in a new window/tab)
Appendices (wit CCLA’s correspondence with officials and police about G20) (will open in a new window/tab)

Awaiting impatiently some ( Read more... )

...Meow!

After receiving the news yesterday, and after a sleepless night due to Alex's sleeping issues, I still went on. As soon as he left for school, I took 30 minutes to dig around on the Internet, revisiting some of the resources that I had bookmarked in the last 3 years.

I discovered that most of the Québec websites related to autism had ( Read more... )

Among the conditions frequently associated with ASDs (Autistic Syndom Disorder), there is sleeping issues.

My son takes melatonin every night; this has improved his condition, but nothing does miracles. So, tonight, it did not work out so well. He's been babbling, wide awake, for about an hour, in his bed.

Now that he's back to sleep... I'm the one ( Read more... )

In no particular order, heard today:

1. Driving lessons mandatory again from January 17 in the province of Québec

I heard the news today. Driving lessons are going to be mandatory again. No, that's not the dumb item.

The dumb item is this:
The government, back when the driving lessons were still mandatory, has been increasingly concerned about drivers ( Read more... )

I'm a patient woman.  What does this mean?

It means that sometimes, stupid people think they can keep giving me bullshit because I didn't bite their head off a the very first mistake they did.  I'm patient, yes, and I'm fair play, so I give the runner a chance first.

When it becomes a problem, I try to discuss it first, before attacking.  Sometimes, ( Read more... )

A lots of things are looming closer now. As per custom, all at once, but I'm used to it - once it's calming down, usually everything calms down at once as well, so it evens out.

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I'm leaving tonight to visit freya46 .  Yay!

But before that, I must
- finish my laundry (now that my dryer's repaired, at last)
- go to the appointment to get the results of yet another evaluation that Alex passed
- drive my ex and his dad to Costco since their car won't hold my ex-father-in-law, my ex, my son in his car seat and what they will get at ( Read more... )

1. Don't assume it's gonna be rough. It can't be rougher than having to endure the proximity of someone when love's gone off the cliff ( Read more... )

The CSDI (Centre de services en déficience intellectuelle, meaning Service Center for Intellectual Deficiency) has a subdivision for people with PDD, called the SRPTED (Services Régionaux pour Personnes avec Troubles Envahissants du Développement, or Regional Services for People with Pervasive Developement Disorders).  The SRPTED are responsible ( Read more... )